Thousand Oaks glass company battles back after fire destroys its building

Matt Masters (left) and his father Mike Masters align a glass shower enclosure in a Thousand Oaks home recently. The business, Arrow Glass, was run out of the family’s home after a 2010 fire destroyed the building where their showroom was located on Thousand Oaks Boulevard. They recently reopened at the same strip mall with a new showroom.

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Arrow Glass, of Thousand Oaks, recently reopened in the same strip mall where it closed in September of 2010 after a fire destroyed the business on Thousand Oaks Boulevard. Owner Mike Masters ran the business from his home until the family could get back into a storefront.

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Mike Masters, owner of Arrow Glass, maneuvers a new shower door into a home in Thousand Oaks earlier this month.

Mike Masters and son Matt carry a new glass shower enclosure into a Thousand Oaks home recently. Arrow Glass was one of several businesses affected when a fire burned down a strip mall on Thousand Oaks Boulevard in 2010.

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When fire gutted the strip mall where their business was, Claire and Mike Masters, owners of Arrow Glass, never thought they would have to wait 2½ years before they could return to the location in Thousand Oaks.